1st outside observation

My first outside observation took place at the library. It was actually kind of accidental, since I was there for completely different reasons, but I happened to walk by and see consultants I recognized. I had to wait a little till a new session started. As I was sitting there, I realized how really noisy it can be inside that part of the library. I thought of this again once the session started too. The girl who came in (she wanted someone to look over her IAH paper for organizational problems) didn't seem to be bothered by the noise, but I was pretty sure I would have been had I been in her shoes. I don't know if I think that's the best place to try and tutor someone during the library's busy hours. In any case, the other big difference between the library and Bessey was time, as many people have already discussed. The paper was only a little over four pages, but there were content issues (as in some of her arguments simply didn't make sense in the context) as well as the organizational ones. I felt the tutor did a pretty good job trying to handle everything, but I thought he glossed over the middle more then he should have while focusing on the intro and conclusion. Those are important parts of the paper, but I didn't think some of the issues with her arguments in the middle of her paper were discussed enough to really give the client a real idea about how much revising she probably needed to do. At the time, I didn't feel I knew enough to intervene, which would feel rude to me anyway. I came away from watching that session thinking that I'd really rather not work at the library, as being surrounded by noise and pressed for time doesn't seem like the most effective environment for tutoring.